The item is an educational film. It is a drug abuse prevention film, aimed at school children. In a classroom, students watch a movie about drugs (including marijuana, hashish, LSD, amphetamines, barbituates, heroin, etc.), and consider the impact that drug use could have on their lives. Filmed at Kerrisdale School in Vancouver.

CALL NUMBER: T1327:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1960?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: COLONEL LOW recalls Vancouver in the 1890s and 1900s; his father, who worked for the CPR; his impressions of the Seymour Street area; Hotel Vancouver; Granville Street; the Howe Street races; the Badminton Hotel; the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York. He continues with childhood memories of home on Seymour Street in 1899; Dawson School; incidents; and the Fairview area. He recalls Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; streetcars; his position as electrical inspector for the city; pageants; arches in the city; first automobiles; Saturday night entertainment and vaudeville shows. TRACK 2:; Colonel Low continues with recollections of teenagers, ca. 1900; newspapers and journalism; the Imperial Theatre and other theatres. WILLIAM WALLACE gives his impressions of Vancouver in 1906 including Carrall Street and the Grandview district. He recalls boyhood incidents; schooling; East Indians; lacrosse; sports; the Grandview District; the Okimo Club, a social club for boys and girls; the chain gang; and the Riel Rebellion.

CALL NUMBER: T1327:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1960?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wallace recalls the change in traffic directions. JACK MEHAN was born in Nanaimo; his family came to Vancouver in 1905. Mr. Mehan talks about the early streetcar lines; childhood pranks; Main Street; Granville Street; the BC Electric [interurban] line to Steveston; Point Grey; the CPR gardens in Kerrisdale; the collision between the "Princess Victoria" and the "Chehalis"; and Captain Alex MacLean. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early Shaughnessy Heights and English Bay PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-20 SUMMARY: Family background in Nova Scotia; moved west in 1908; first home on Davie Street; Old Black Joe [i.e., Joe Fortes?]; moved to Shaughnessy Heights; growing up there; Bowen Island; West Vancouver; life; in Shaughnessy Heights; police; Ku Klux Klan; Indian peddlars; her father's grocery store; Christmas celebrations; Point Grey; South Vancouver and Kerrisdale as bush; First World War conditions; Kitsilano; leisure activities; streetcar strikes; stores; early Stanley Park; changes in the city; Second World War; explosion of ammunition ship explosion [the "Green Hill Park"]; high school education.